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lament

In literature, an expression of mourning or deep sorrow. A lament may be found in the form of an elegy or a dirge. Often laments are poems, and are frequently set to music.



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That leaves become withered,--what is there to lament about that!
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
As an example of motiveless degradation of character, we have Menelaus in the Orestes: of character indecorous and inappropriate, the lament of Odysseus in the Scylla, and the speech of Melanippe: of inconsistency, the Iphigenia at Aulis,--for Iphigenia the suppliant in no way resembles her later self.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
You will but spoil your life if you constantly lament another person's sorrow.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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